Business Man, Church Leader Dies
William Henry Smart Succumbs to Illness of Month
William Henry Smart, 75, prominent Utah business man and church leader, died Friday in a local hospital after a month’s illness.
Mr. Smart was born in Franklin, Idaho, April 6, 1862, a son of Thomas Sharratt Smart and Ann Hayter Smart. He served as teacher and later president of Brigham Young college in Logan, and in 1886 went to England on an L. D. S. mission. He served also on a mission to Turkey, and was president of the eastern states mission from 1898 to 1900.
Head of Stakes
Coming to Utah he became successively president of the Wasatch, Uintah, Duchesne and Roosevelt L. D. S. stakes.
He was one of the first directors of the Beneficial Life Insurance company; a founder of the Smart & Webster Livestock company of Rexburg, Idaho, and its president and general manager; one of the organizers and first president of the Heber Mercantile company; first president of the Wasatch Wave Publishing company, a director of the Utah State National bank; one of the organizers and first presidents of the Uintah State bank; one of the organizers of the Roosevelt Realty company and the Roosevelt Mercantile corporation; one of the organizers and directors of the Salt Lake Knitting works, and organizer and chief proprietor of the Duchesne Record Publishing company.
Survivors Given
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Anna Haines Smart; three sons, William Haines Smart, of Salt Lake City; Thomas L. Smart, Reno, Nev.; Joseph H. Smart, Denver; three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Rasmussen and Mrs. Edna Pearce, of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Ruth Pope, of Heber; 22 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza A. Mecham, of Preston, Idaho, and Mrs. Mary J. Webster, of Rexburg, and two brothers, Leslie S. Smart, of Logan, and Melvin S. Smart of Provo.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p. m. in the Seventeenth L. D. S. ward chapel. Burial will be in City cemetery.
(The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 4th December 1937)
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